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How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest

Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries

Shows the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.

How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans

A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor

A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativity

Shedding new light on the political socialization of American women

A significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first century

How New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and Jacobs

The "Mahapuranas" embody the received tradition of Hindu mythology. This anthology contains fresh translations of these myths. It includes chapters such as: "Origins"; "Seers, Kings and Supernaturals"; "Krsna," "Visnu," and "Siva"; and, "The Goddess" that presents stories of the wives and lovers of the gods, as well as of Kali, the battle goddess.

A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.

Defines and changes perceptions of ethnic identity. This book invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California.

How environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American women

A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American Dream

A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history

An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature

How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II

New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America

Examines what it means historically, culturally, socioeconomically, and politically to be a bicycle transportation advocate/activist. Presenting an underground subculture of bike enthusiasts who aggressively resist car culture, this book maps out the cultural trajectories between mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.

Examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization, and undocumented migration, and considers the policy options for controlling immigration. This book develops an ethical rationale for opening up the US/Mexican border, as well as improving conditions in Mexico so that its citizens would have little incentive to migrate.

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes

An ethnographic study of urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement

Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. This book demolishes the conventional notion that there is one true history and one best way to teach it.

Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live 'between the lines' on and between borders, this book reinstates questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance.

Presents Filipino literary production within context of a long and sustained tradition of anti-imperialist insurgency, and foregrounds the strong presence of oppositional writing in Philippines. This title goes beyond literary studies and debates about nationalism and politics to point the way to a new direction in radical transformative writing.

Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, this work examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society.

Presents an account of gays in Cuba. This book links the treatment of male homosexuality under Castro with prejudices and preconceptions prevalent in Cuban society before the Revolution. It locates the issues surrounding homosexual identity within the broad context of Cuban culture, history, and social policy.

Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is fully integrated and continuous with us, this book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations.

Takes a look at Victorian America, and explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations. The five essays in the book discuss specific pieces - hallstands, sideboards, embroidered mottoes, parlor organs, and seating furniture - within the context of broader cultural issues and concerns.